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		<title>OFT Research Negative Banking Experiences</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Francis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small business issues pertaining to unfair banking practices are not new. However, as the credit crunch and subsequent recession hit, small businesses were faced with increasing difficulty obtaining lending from their banks. Once again, last month, figures from the British Banking Association showed that business lending was in decline. There has also been much frustration regarding the length of time small businesses and contractors have had to wait to find out if their application has been accepted or declined.]]></description>
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		<title>Dell Join Late Payment Hall of Shame</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dell has become the latest company to find themselves in the Forum of Private Business's payment league table which serves as a 'hall of shame' for those companies whose payment terms are deemed unacceptable by FPB.]]></description>
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		<title>FPB Advise Government to Think Small</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Forum of Private Business has urged the government to think about the needs of smaller businesses when developing legislation. They have criticised current legislation for only considering big businesses. They have said that this often results in smaller businesses, with fewer employees, having difficulty competing with their larger counterparts.]]></description>
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		<title>Small Business Owners Seek Personal Finance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Francis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contractors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As borrowing continues to be problematic this year, it is predicted that small business owners with financial difficulties may find themselves looking for financial assistance from their family and friends, not to mention borrowing on personal finance such as credit cards. This information comes courtesy of a survey conducted by Graydon UK, a commercial credit reference agency, and the Forum of Private Businesses. The information was based on 2009 but with these issues still prevalent in 2010 it is likely that the same pattern will continue.]]></description>
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		<title>Lord Sugar Sets the Record Straight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month the Government's enterprise tsar Lord Alan Sugar made some comments about small business owners being moaners which caused a great deal of upset within the business community. However, Lord Sugar has spoken out to insist that his comments were taken out of context.]]></description>
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		<title>FPB Propose Tax Relief Strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Tedd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Forum of Private Businesses (FPB) is lobbying the government to include specified tax cuts within their pre-budget report on 9th December. The FPB have recently surveyed all of their members and more than twenty per cent believe that the government should be focussing policies to relieve tax burdens on SMEs.]]></description>
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		<title>FPB Refute Sugar&#8217;s Small Business Claims</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/591/fpb-refute-sugars-small-business-claims</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Apprentice's Lord Alan Sugar has come under fire for comments he made; declaring many business owners as “moaners”. The business and enterprise tsar's remarks came as complaints about the lack of bank lending to small businesses are on the increase. Sugar stated that the majority of complainers had no grounds to grumble. He also dismissed young business owners who, he said, were only used to the “Disneyworld” lending over the last ten years.]]></description>
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		<title>Northgate Information Solutions Doubles Invoice Payment Terms</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/348/northgate-information-solutions-doubles-invoice-payment-terms</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Willows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northgate Information Solutions have doubled the time it takes to pay their suppliers. This increases the payment of invoices from thirty days to sixty days. Northgate are a provider of many public sector IT contracts. Effectively this means that contractors who invoiced for work carried out in July, expecting payment in August, will not be paid until September. This move has left many contractors out of pocket.]]></description>
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